Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Jeongjeon (正傳)

Settle Fright Pill

Jingyeong-hwan

한글 진경환 · Pinyin Zhen Jing Wan

鎭驚丸

The transcriber's ≪≫ here encloses both the dose and the source label (≪五六丸 ○正傳≫); the dose is printed as 細註 in the leaf and is given as a sochu span.

Composition 構成

Cheonnamseong Tian Nan Xing
天南星 천남성 · Arisaema

20 g
Chief 君

牛膽南星, arisaema processed in ox bile
Jusa Zhu Sha
朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)

14 g
Chief 君

cinnabar — mercuric sulfide, toxic
Hobak Hu Po
琥珀 호박 · Amber

12 g
Deputy 臣
Cheonchukhwang Tian Zhu Huang
天竺黃 천축황 · Bamboo Silica

12 g
Deputy 臣
Unghwang Xiong Huang
雄黃 웅황 · Realgar

12 g
Deputy 臣

realgar — arsenic sulfide, toxic
Uhwang Niu Huang
牛黃 우황 · Cattle Gallstone

8 g
Assistant 佐
Jinju Zhen Zhu
眞珠 진주 · Pearl

4 g
Assistant 佐
Sahyang She Xiang
麝香 사향 · Musk (prohibited)

2 g
Envoy 使

musk — a protected material
Geumbak Jin Bo
金箔 금박 · Gold Leaf

—
Envoy 使

ten leaves (十片), and gold leaf again for the coating

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.

Actions 效能

Weighs the spirit down and quiets fright
Draws off heat and breaks up phlegm

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Acute fright wind (急驚風)
Phlegm heat clouding the Heart spirit

Biomedical correlates

Convulsion in a child — historical management
Recorded for historical reference only

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治急驚風, 鎭驚寧神, 退熱化痰. 牛膽南星五錢, 朱砂三錢半, 琥珀ㆍ天竺黃ㆍ雄黃各三錢, 牛黃二錢, 眞珠一錢, 麝香半錢, 金箔十片. 右爲末, 麪糊和丸梧子大, 金箔爲衣, 薄荷薑蜜湯下<span class='sochu'>五六丸</span>. 《正傳》

Translation

Treats acute fright wind; settles fright and quiets the spirit, draws off heat and transforms phlegm. Arisaema processed in ox bile 5 don; cinnabar 3 don 5 fun; amber, bamboo sugar and realgar 3 don each; ox bezoar 2 don; pearl 1 don; musk half a don; gold leaf ten sheets. Powder them, bind with flour paste into pills the size of a paulownia seed, coat them with gold leaf, and give them down in a decoction of mint, ginger and honey — five or six pills. — Jeongjeon 正傳 (Donguibogam · Soa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Eight drugs, and only one of them is a plant: bile-processed arisaema, cinnabar, amber, bamboo sugar, realgar, ox bezoar, pearl and musk, with gold leaf inside and out. It is the same shelf as 金箔鎭心丸 as 神門 registers it from 回春 — the same eight substances in different proportions — and the two should be read as one prescription travelling under two names. The patient is a child, and the text gives no dose by weight anywhere: five or six pills, with no indication of age or size. **Contains cinnabar, which is mercuric sulfide, and realgar, which is arsenic sulfide. Neither must be prepared or given, least of all to a child** — see the first cinnabar leaf in this section for why the developing nervous system is the organ at risk. Ox bezoar and musk are both from protected animals and musk is CITES Appendix I. The gold leaf, by contrast, is inert and does nothing at all, good or bad. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.